Bob CollinsToday’s news entertainment comes from watching journalists pretend to be upholding the public’s right to know in registering their displeasure that they weren’t invited to a free concert with Prince and Steve Wonder at the White House over the weekend Read more →
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Archives for June 2015
The bride was attended to by hospice nurses. Her husband has cerebral palsy, the Des Moines Register reports. Read more →
Other than Bobby Hull, no player was more identified with the Chicago Blackhawks back in the day than Stan Mikita. Those were the good days. Read more →
The New York Times followed a Kentucky man with a chronic illness from the months before the national health law went into effect.
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For Catholics in particular, does the resignation make a difference in how your view the church? Read more →
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in the case of Patience Paye of Waterloo, who was arrested two years ago by police responding to a domestic violence case. She didn’t want her children to be upset, so she stepped onto her front porch to talk to the authorities. She had been arguing with a man who didn’t want her to drive drunk and wouldn’t give her the keys. She also didn’t have a license. Read more →
For most people, Rachel Dolezal’s race doesn’t matter. But she heads Spokane’s NAACP. She’s also a part-time professor in Eastern Washington University’s Africana Studies Program. Read more →
In Indiana, the First Church of Cannabis will hold its first service the same day Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act goes into effect. Read more →
Braden Gandee, of Temperance, Mich., was born at 32 weeks with cerebral palsy. He can’t walk.
So his brother, Hunter, carries him on his back. Everywhere. Read more →
There may be no more sacred cow in the United States than the American Red Cross, but it’s got a disaster of its own in the wake of an NPR/ProPublica investigation that showed the Red Cross is challenged to explain where half-a-billion dollars in donations to Haiti earthquake relief went. The charity’s own documents, however, Read more →
We’ve seen tackier uses of American flag references — just see Nikki Tundel’s fine photo series on the subject today (an annual tradition in this space)– than the plan by Major League Baseball to dress up its players in stars and stripes on Flag Day Sunday.
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Does the right of citizens to carry guns fuel crime or help stop it?
That’s the ongoing debate surrounding so-called concealed carry legislation around the country and it’s not likely to be settled anytime soon because in many states, the law makes it difficult to analyze data. Read more →
Even if the new St. Paul Saints stadium didn’t turn out to be the jewel that it has, it would’ve been addition by subtraction just with the removal of the old Gillette plant, an industrial eyesore. Read more →
Zoey, 7, and Andria Green, 8.
Remember those names. We’ll be hearing from them again what with their early start on crime careers and all. Read more →
At the start of the ‘Oh, your job is easy; you don’t have to work in the summer’ season, it’s a good time to remember that some pretty awesome people have those teaching jobs.
Joan Hochman, a third-grade teacher at Woodbury’s Middleton Elementary School is obviously one of them. Read more →